Hi folks!
To end the discussion of how my posting has to be understood, I will
further explain my idea:
In Germany there's a web-space provider called 1&1 puretec
(http://www.puretec.de/). They offer a feature called @-domain:
Every time a user enters something like
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/file.ending,
"username" is mapped to a directory one can define. Thus, the name
@-domain. The provider I'm talking of uses some JavaScript code
similiar to this to achieve the redirection:
<script language="JavaScript">
var s = location.href.substring(0, location.href.indexOf("@"));
if (s.substring(0, 7).toLowerCase() == "http://";);
s = s.substring(7);
location.replace(s + "/index.html");
</script>
This will effectively map "username" to "./username/index.html" or
- to be more precise - to "/path/to/username/index.html", since
we are already in "/path/to/file.ending". This way, one can construct
some HTTP-address like this
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and use some email-account like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
That would be cool since you only have to cut & paste the
URL to the "To:"-field of your email-client...
Sorry, I didn't know @-domains didn't go international, yet.
I was just looking for a way to do this using PHP, but since
"username" isn't actually sent, unless you use "WWW-Authenticate",
it should be a quite impossible thing to do.
Question: Does anybody know a way to prevent the browsers
login-dialog - you could then catch "username" using
$PHP_AUTH_USER (or similiar) and redirect as appropriate?
Another problem: can I use a blank password for authentication?
That would effectively mean @-domains...
Regards,
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Christian
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